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1 IMMUNISATION
2 INFLUENZA IMMUNISATION Influenza (flu) is a highly contagious viral infection that is responsible for major outbreaks of respiratory illness around the world, usually in the winter months. Unlike the common cold, influenza can cause severe illness and life-threatening complications such as pneumonia and bronchitis, which often require hospitalisation. The flu virus is especially dangerous for elderly people, pregnant women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and very young children, as well as for people with underlying medical conditions. It is estimated that each year, flu contributes to an average of 13,500 hospitalisations and more than 3,000 deaths among Australians aged over 50 years. In Australia the flu vaccine is recommended for everyone fro4m six months of age, but is available free under the National Program for people who face a high risk from influenza and its complications. These are: People aged 65 years and over Aboriginal and Torres Strait people aged six months to less than five years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are aged 15 years and over Pregnant women People aged six months and over with medical conditions such as severe asthma, lung or heart disease, low immunity or diabetes that can lead to complications from influenza. 1
3 WHAT SHOULD PATIENTS WHO HAVE HAD GUILLAIN- BARRÉ SYNDROME BE ADVISED ABOUT FUTURE IMMUNISATION? Guillain-Barré syndrome is thought to be an autoimmune disease. Vaccines stimulate the immune system. Theoretically stimulating the immune system might exacerbate or lead to a reappearance of an autoimmune disease. There are anecdotal reports of GBS occurring soon after immunisations. (Ref 1-5) There was an increase in incidence of GBS after the "swine flu" virus vaccine program in the United States in (Ref 6) More recent information suggests that the occurrence of GBS after currently used influenza and other vaccines is extremely rare. (Ref 7) Case control studies have shown no evidence of a significant increase in risk of having received an immunisation preceding GBS compared with contemporary controls. (Ref 8-10) Retrospective examination of the incidence of GBS for the seasons of the and influenza vaccination programs in the United States suggested that influenza vaccination only caused one to two extra cases of GBS per million vaccines. (Ref 11) Despite this evidence, the belief that GBS is an autoimmune condition and the knowledge that immunisations are designed to activate the immune system give rise to continued unease about immunisation following the disease. (Ref 12;13) This unease is enhanced by a report of two cases of GBS recurring following swine influenza vaccine. (Ref 14) In addition recurrent attacks of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) have followed tetanus toxoid immunisation. (Ref 12-15) However many patients have received immunisations after the acute phase of their disease, sometimes repeatedly, (Ref 16) without suffering a relapse. 2
4 The number of such patients has, however, not been monitored and the actual risk is not known. In the absence of adequate evidence and the difficulty of conducting an adequately powered randomised trial, it would be appropriate to audit a recovered GBS patient population to discover what proportion has received immunisations and what was the outcome. Although the experiment has never been done in GBS, patients with multiple sclerosis have been randomised to receive or not receive influenza vaccine and no evidence emerged to suggest that immunisation stimulated relapse. (Ref 17;18) In a recent thorough review Flachenecker et al. (Ref 19) found no evidence that immunisation adversely effects the course of multiple sclerosis. In the case of influenza vaccine and hepatitis B vaccines this conclusion was based on large epidemiological studies. CONCLUSION The decision whether to receive a vaccine is an individual one which has to be decided on a case by case basis. In 2007 for the first time, the manufacturer of at least one influenza vaccine has recommended that it not been given to people who have had GBS in the past. This recommendation has to be balanced against the risk of influenza itself in a particular individual. Advice should be sought from your own doctor and the Charity cannot offer specific individual comment. VACCINES IN CIDP Little is known about the risks of immunisation in CIDP. There have been reports of relapse of CIDP soon after immunisation for tetanus in three patients. 3
5 In 2002 members of the GBS Support Group answered a questionnaire, Sixty five people with CIDP said that they had received vaccines. Sixty had had no problems. Five (8%) said they got worse afterwards. Three (5%) of these said that their symptoms were like a typical relapse of their CIDP. One needed treatment. The other two were already getting neurological symptoms before the immunisation so that the immunisation may not have been to blame. It is difficult to say whether any of these immunisations really caused the relapses. They could have been coincidental. However it is impossible to deny that relapses sometimes happen after immunisations in CIDP. The answers to this questionnaire suggest that the risk lies between 2.5 and 17%. However questionnaires like this often overestimate the risk so that the real risk is probably less and might be much less. In many other neurological diseases, for instance multiple sclerosis, there is more information and influenza vaccine is considered safe. WHAT SHOULD I DO? This always depends on your individual circumstances. You must balance the benefits of the vaccine against the unknown but probably small risk of the vaccine causing a relapse. You should always discuss this with your own doctor. Ask your doctor if the vaccine is really necessary. The following are common questions: I am NOT on steroids, plasma exchange, azathioprine or other immunosuppressive drugs: should I be immunised? Some immunisations are more important than others. For example, most people have already been immunised against tetanus, and boosters may not be essential. However if you have not been immunised within the past 5 years and cut yourself so that dirt gets into the wound then the balance of risks may change in favour of receiving the vaccine. I AM on steroids, azathioprine or other immunosuppressive drugs: should I be immunised? Theoretically your risk of developing infections like a serious case of influenza is greater because you are on these drugs. However your risk of having a relapse of CIDP is also 4
6 probably less be-cause you are on them. The balance of evidence may therefore be more in favour of having, for instance, an annual influenza vaccine. I am on intravenous immunoglobulin should I be immunised? Intravenous immunoglobulin probably makes you less likely to have infections so the need for immunisation is less. Also intravenous immunoglobulin probably makes immunisations less effective. If you decide to be immunised, theoretically it is probably better to do this half way between your intravenous immunoglobulin courses. Reminder: The decision to have a vaccine depends on your individual circumstances and you should always discuss this with your own doctor. You might wish to show him or her a copy of this guideline. REFERENCES 1. Bakshi R, Graves MC. Guillain-Barre syndrome after combined tetanus-diphtheria toxoid vaccination. J Neurol Sci 1997;147: Gervaix A, Caflisch M, Suter S, Haenggeli CA. Guillain-Barré syndrome following immunisation with Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine. Eur J Paed 1993;152: Gross TP, Hayes SW. Haemophilus conjugate vaccine and Guillain-Barré syn-drome. Journal of Pediatrics 1991;118: Holliday P, Bauer RB. Polyradiculoneuritis secondary to immunisation with tetanus and diphtheria toxoids. Arch Neurol 1983;40: Morris K, Rylance G. Guillain-Barré syndrome after measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Lancet 1994;343: Schonberger LB, Bregman DJ, Sullivan-Bolynai JZ, Keenlyside RA, Ziegler DW, Retailliau HR, Eddins DL, Bryan JA. Guillain-Barre syndrome following vaccination in the National Influenza Immunization program, United States Am J Epidemiol 1979;110: Fenichel GM. Assessment: Neurologic risk of immunization: report of the Therapeutics and Technology Assessment Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology 1999; 52: Winer JB, Hughes RAC, Anderson MJ, Jones DM, Kangro H, Watkins RFP. A prospective study of acute idiopathic neuropathy. II. Antecedent events. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1988;51:
7 9. Rees J, Hughes R. Guillain-Barré syndrome after measles, mumps and rubella vaccine. Lancet 1994;343: Hughes RAC, Rees J, Smeeton N, Winer J. Vaccines and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Brit Med J 1996;312: Lasky T, Terracciano GJ, Magder L, Koski CL, Ballesteros M, Nash D, Clark S, Haber P, Stolley PD, Schonberger LB, Chen RT. The Guillain-Barré syndrome and the and influenza vaccines. New Engl J Med 1998;339: Hughes RAC, Choudhary PP, Osborn M, Rees JH, Sanders EACM. and risk of relapse of Guillain-Barré syndrome or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Muscle Nerve 1996;19: Ropper AH, Victor M. Influenza vaccination and the Guillain-Barré syndrome. New Engl J Med 1998;339: Seyal M, Ziegler DK, Couch JR. Recurrent Guillain-Barre syndrome following influenza vaccine. Neurology 1978;28: Pollard JD, Selby G. Relapsing neuropathy due to tetanus toxoid. J Neurol Sci 1978;37: Wijdicks EFM, Fletcher DD, Lawn DD. Influenza vaccine and the risk of re-lapse of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Neurology 2000;55: Myers LW, Ellison GW, Lucia M, Novom S. Swine-influenza vaccination in multiple sclerosis. New Eng J Med 1976;295: Miller AE, Morgante LA, Buchwald LY, Coyle PK, Krupp LB, Doscher CA, Lublin FD, Knobler RL, Trantas F, Kelley L, Smith CR, La Rocca N, Lopez S. A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled trial of influenza im-munization in multiple sclerosis. Neurology 1997;48: Flachenecker P, Moriabadi N, Niewiesk S, Rieckmann P. Immunization and multiple sclerosis: clinical and immunological implications. The International MS Journal 2001;7: Pollard JD, Selby G. Relapsing neuropathy due to tetanus toxoid. J Neurol Sci 1978; 37: Hughes RAC, Choudhary PP, Osborn M, Rees JH, Sanders EACM. and risk of relapse of Guillain-Barré syndrome or chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy. Muscle Nerve 1996; 19: Pritchard J, Mukherjee R, Hughes RAC. The Risk of Relapse of Guillain-Barré Syndrome or Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculo-neuropathy following. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2002; 73: This text has been agreed by members of the Charity's Medical Advisory Board. This guide is offered in response to continual requests for advice on immunisations and is subject to our usual disclaimer. 6
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